Russia’s top army general and his South African counterpart have discussed “military cooperation” while meeting in Moscow.
Gen. Oleg Salyukov, the commander of Russia's ground forces, met the chief of South Africa's army, Lt. Gen. Lawrence Mbatha, at Russia's general command headquarters in Moscow, the Russian ministry said.
The South African army said the trip was planned well in advance of the U.S. ambassador to South Africa alleging last week that the country had providedwhen a ship under U.S. sanctions made a secret stop at a South African naval base in December. Ramaphosa used his weekly message to the nation Monday to reaffirm South Africa's non-aligned stance with regard to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The president's statement was seen as a response to U.S. Ambassador to South Africa Reuben Brigety, who questioned South Africa's neutrality in the Ukraine war while making the allegations about a weapons shipment.“We do not accept that our non-aligned position favors Russia above other countries,” Ramaphosa wrote in his weekly message.
Such a trip would entangle South Africa in another diplomatic mess because the country is a signatory to the treaty that created the International Criminal Court, whichfor Putin in March for alleged war crimes involving the abductions of children from Ukraine. South Africa is the only African nation in the BRICS bloc, which also includes Brazil, Russia, India and China.
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